Paolo began his piano studies at a very early age, swinging between classical and jazz music. On the jazz repertoire, he was followed by Bruno Cesselli, while on the classical one there were Battista Pradal and Massimo Nason. At 15, he started live performances, with his first jazz, funk and rock groups. He had a fondness on composition from the very beginning, so he experimented musical commixtures of acoustic sounds with electronic instrumentation. He took part in the “Ezz-Tetich” project, a laboratory that mixed acoustic music with electronic one (drum’n’bass, trip hop). Moreover, he joined as a piano, electric piano and synthesizer’s player three DJ’s, Alessandro Corsini, Piero Vit and Leo Gementi. In 2004, Paolo attended Siena Jazz seminaries, with Stefano Battaglia, Franco D’Andrea and many other outstanding names in the Italian jazz panorama. He worked with Federico Missio, saxophonist from Udine, with whom he took part in the 6th edition of Sestri Jazz (2006). He also followed the release of the album “4+1” (2007), together with Alessandro Turchet, Maurizio Cepparo and Massimo Manzi. During that same period, he took part in the staff of the Abbey Town Jazz Orchestra, confronting with classical swing repertoires. Together with Abbey Town, he performed in Senigallia at Summer Jamboree, international swing music festival; afterwards, in 2007 he cut the record “Big Band Jump!”. He joined U.T. Gandhi Fearless Five group, exploring the jazz-rock universe settled by Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul and the Weather Report. In this experience, he worked on the transcription and adaptation of the repertoire, focusing on the exclusive use of the electric piano and synthesizers. With the Fearless Five, subsequently renamed “Vertical Invaders” as the group enlarged to six members, Paolo had the chance to perform at the Atina Jazz festival, the international festival of Sunsplash and at the Vocalia exhibition in Maniago. All those efforts merged up in the release of the album “Travellers” (2008). During the Jazz Koinè season review in 2008, he formed the duo “Rivolti dal Basso” with the bright Double Bass player Alessandro Turchet, working on a fusion between the Be-Bop language with the dark, claustrophobic atmospheres of English half 70s’ progressive style. A silent interior “riot”, widened by the dehumanizing effects of the modern social scenery, that starting from the lowest point, from the “bottom”, meant to recreate those atmospheres through the union of the first assumed modern Jazz form with a ritual, mature form of Rock. Paolo grew his interest in musical improvisation and worked with different realities in Veneto and Friuli regions, making duets with the saxophone player Luciano Caruso and with the flute player Massimo De Mattia, taking part in the “Improvvirussoundexperience” orchestra and, afterward, in the Orchestra Componibile, which in 2010 he cut the record “Musica per piccola orchestra e 5 direttori” (Music for the little orchestra and five conductors) with. Starting from 2010, he’s a member in the “Funambolique… theatre jazz” group, proposing an original repertoire mainly created by Luca De Michel, characterized by a “theatrical”-figurative nature. With this group, he gave birth to the “Arzestula” record, in 2011.
In 2010, Paolo graduated with the highest marks and first-class honors, getting the 2nd level academy degree in Musical disciplines – Jazz interpretative-composing field – with a thesis that deeply analyzed the composing and performing way of thinking of Wayne Shorter. The following year he achieved the classical piano diploma at Trieste’s Academy of music, followed by his teacher Gianni Della Libera. In 2012, Tommaso Cappellato dragged him to form the “Astral Travel” group, in which he had been charged as the music direcTor. Together with Alessia Obino, Anna Maria Dalla Valle and Marco Privato, he undertook a so-called “Spiritual Jazz” repertoire (following Harry Whitaker’s path), with original musical drafting by Tommaso Cappellato, Anna Maria Dalla Valle and himself.In the same year, he gave birth to the “Paolo Corsini Sextet” (with Anna Maria Dalla Valle, Mirko Cisilino, Filippo Orefice, Alessandro Turchet and Andrea Pivetta), a group especially formed for the “Jazz Noir”, in the wider range of events “Visioni Sonore 2012” settled in Pordenone. Paolo wrote up and arranged for the sextet six noir movies’ scores, in order to perform them live during a screening of some original films’ clips. From 2003 on, he has been playing an active teaching role in various music schools, in Veneto and Friuli areas.